From: Stjepan Poljak <stjepan.poljak@gmail.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowangio@gmail.com>
Cc: "Francesco Valla" <francesco@valla.it>,
"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
"Xuan Zhuo" <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
"Bjorn Andersson" <andersson@kernel.org>,
"Mathieu Poirier" <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio_ring: reject a split ring size that is not a power of two again
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:49:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112154927.4004184-2-stjepan.poljak@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261112154927.4004184-1-stjepan.poljak@gmail.com>
The split ring indexes its avail and used rings with num - 1 as a mask,
so its size must be a power of two. Commit 2a2d1382fe9d ("virtio: Add
improved queue allocation API") moved that check from
vring_new_virtqueue() into the new allocation path, which
vring_new_virtqueue() does not use.
remoteproc calls vring_new_virtqueue() with a ring size from the
firmware, checked only to be non-zero. With 100 entries, for example,
the driver would put buffers 4 and 8 in avail slot 0. The device would
look for them at slots 4 and 8, possibly reading the wrong data.
Put the check back for the split ring; the packed ring has no such
restriction.
Fixes: 2a2d1382fe9d ("virtio: Add improved queue allocation API")
Signed-off-by: Stjepan Poljak <stjepan.poljak@gmail.com>
---
remoteproc still reports this as -ENOMEM, although the "Bad virtqueue
length" error names the cause. Returning an error pointer from
vring_new_virtqueue() is left for later; the same change for
vring_create_virtqueue() is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261106055635.3019889-1-stjepan.poljak@gmail.com
v2:
- Log with dev_err() rather than dev_warn(), and say in the message why
the length is bad (Francesco)
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index f683a2d6a200..f855b8d41575 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -3513,6 +3513,13 @@ struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueue(unsigned int index,
name, map);
}
+ /* The split ring indexes its rings with num - 1 as a mask. */
+ if (!is_power_of_2(num)) {
+ dev_err(&vdev->dev,
+ "Bad virtqueue length %u (not a power of two)\n", num);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
vring_init(&vring_split.vring, num, pages, vring_align);
return __vring_new_virtqueue_split(index, &vring_split, vdev, weak_barriers,
context, notify, callback, name,
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-12 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-12 15:49 [PATCH v2 0/2] " Stjepan Poljak
2026-11-12 15:49 ` Stjepan Poljak [this message]
2026-11-12 15:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tools/virtio: vringh_test: check that a split ring must be a power of two Stjepan Poljak
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